Lord, please help me to change - Judith Couchman

a yLET TH E TRUT HBE KNOW NAn honest personal inventoryenhances our ability to change.specially during Worl d Wa r II , Margaret Bourke-Whit edistinguished hersel f a s a photo-journalist an d a womanwho kne w he r destiny . I n he r autobiograph y decade s later , Mar -garet attribute d he r sens e o f purpose t o parents who taugh t an dmodeled a search fo r integrity. She wrote :I realize no w ho w [m y father's] entir e purpos e wa sfocused towar d attainin g [a ] self-se t standard, ho wdeep i n hi m th e philosoph y was : never leav e a jo buntil yo u hav e done i t t o sui t yourself an d bette r tha nanyone els e requires yo u t o do it . Perhaps thi s unspo -ken cree d wa s the mos t valuable inheritanc e a chil dcould receiv e from her father .That, an d th e lov e o f truth, which i s requisite No . 1for a photographer. An d i n thi s trainin g Mothe rshared. When I was a very small child, i f I broke a soupplate, Mothe r woul d say , "Margaret, wa s it an acciden tor wa s i t carelessness?" I f I said i t was carelessness, 1was punished; a n accident , I was forgiven. I am prou d.Iff